The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-12
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
CONDENS4TI0N OF THE BU>F
H4PPENINGS OF 4 WIEN:
@ood Crops AssUrrd-~ociai. religions and
temperance GaGhcriuEs-BO Down
ltems-C ouutry Generally Healthy

Good Crops Assured social, Religions and
temperance CatherinEs-BoiIed Down
lteus-C Country Generally Healthy.
The Montgomery, Ala. Street Car
drivers struck for $l4 a week and twelve
hours day 10 constitute "a day work.
The First Baptist church pt Osyka.
Miss. was struck 10y lightning. tearing
the whole of the north side Of the stcep.e
to pieces.
The Board of Health Of Atlanta. Ga
intend to close up all the wells Of the
city, as it is found the water is impure
from sewage.
Maxwell, the condemned ST. Louis
murderer, will not be executed at present,
as his case has been appealed to the
United States Court
\ man named Ferguson was killed on
the East Tennessee Railroad near Bras
well, Ga, while attempting to jump on
a train, while in motion.
\ fue OF the ammonia chamber of the
Central City Ice works blew out at Ma
con, Ga, creating great deal of Constcr-
nation among the employees
". J. Whaley, a clerk for Grant, Nun
day & Co., contractors of Savannah, Ga,
a check from $434 to $4,034.
Charles r. Jones, proprietor of the
Daily Observer at Charlotte, n. c., made
an assignment for the benefit of his cred
itors. He places his liabilities at 80, 500
Reports received from Manchester, Clay
county, in the southeastern corner Of
Kentucky, state that riot occurred dur
ING the election in which six men were
killed
Hon. E. w. Robertson died at Baton
Rouge, La, aged siXty-four. He served
three terms in Congress and was elected
in November last member Of the 5Oth
Congress.
The Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus
Railroad have located its line and work
will be begun on the road within the next
ten days. The line will be 142 miles long
and will pass through rich country.
The capital will be furnished by New
York and London bankers.
The choking of the great sewer on
Lloyd street, Atlanta, Ga, has puzzled
the city authorities for several years and
it has just come to light, that the GAS
company had tapped the sewer i'll several
places and run their pipes through it, to
save them from digging up the street.
All the women and children have left
Morehead City, Rowan county, Ky, and
there is no one there except those who
intend to engage in the fight, if one take
takes place. The TolIiver gang are armed
with Winchesters, and the Logunitcs
would have little show of holding out
against them.
Joseph II. Rainey, once a prominent
Colored man in South Carolina, has Just
died at Columbia. He figured extensively
in politics, his superior intelligence and
good stock of information giving him
prestige among his party followers. Be
fore and during the War he was the bar
Der at the Mills house in Charleston.
At depth of 900 feet, small flow of
gas has been struck at the Logan well,
six miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. The
gas was lighted and bIazcd up five feet
high, and the flow is continuous There
is considerable excitement, and stock
company with capital of 500, 600 has
been organized to sink five more wells.
The son of John Player, of Kershaw
county, S. c., aged years, accidentally
shot his little brother, aged 3, inficting
a severe and perhaps serious wound. A
gun had been loaded without the know
ledge of the father, and while the elder
boy was playing with it, it went off with
the result stated.
BY the breaking Of a brake beam on
freight car on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road, near station called Henry Ellen,
several cars were deraiIed while on the
Cahawba mountains. The cars went down
the mountain side and were knocked
about badly. Conductor DOolcy and
Brakeman Tucker of Atlanta were b# ,Iy
hurt.
DR.. W. H. Saunders, the physician ap
pointed to make examinations Of locOmO
tive engineers and other railroad en-
ployes, under the new law which went
into effect recently, abandoned his work
at Stevenson, Ala. He was arrested on
a writ of mandamus, which requires him
to complete his test as to color blindness.
His reason for abandoning his work is
said to be trouble with railroad men, 90,
900 in number, who dislike the new law.
Gen Samuel Jones, of the Judge advo-
cate generals office, died at Bedford
Springs, Pa. Gen. Jones was born in Nir-
ginia in 1920, and was consequently six
ty-seven years of age He was appoint
ed cadet at the Military Academy at
West Point and after graduation en-
tered the army, where he served with
credit in the Mexican war. He contin
ued in the service until th breaking ont
of the War; when he resigned to cutter
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